Funding programmes
Funding, Funding programmes
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National Lottery Awards for All England
A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £20,000.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £300 to £20,000, for up to two years
- Application deadline
Ongoing. Apply at least 16 weeks before you want to start the activities or spend any of the money.
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National Lottery Awards for All Wales
A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £20,000.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £300 to £20,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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National Lottery Awards for All Scotland
A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £20,000.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £300 to £20,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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National Lottery Awards for All Northern Ireland
A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £20,000.
- Area
- Northern Ireland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £300 to £20,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing. Apply at least 12 weeks before you want to start the activities or spend any of the money.
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Offers a larger amount of funding (over £20,001) for projects that last up to five years. We’re looking for projects that work with their community – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £20,001 or more, for up to five years
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Offers a larger amount of funding (over £20,001) for organisations that work together with a shared set of goals to help their community thrive – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £20,001 or more, for up to five years
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Our vision for funding in England
We’re setting out a bold new vision for how we’ll support communities across England.
- Area
- England
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We’re looking for 10 to 15 partners to work with us in the development stage of our Community Power fund.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Community or voluntary organisations, public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £50,000 to £80,000 per partner organisation
- Total available
- £1.2 million
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We’re looking for up to 5 partners with expertise in involving communities in decisions about grant making.
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Community or voluntary organisations
- Funding size
- We expect most partners to use a maximum of £80,000 of the funding they receive to cover their costs.
- Total available
- £2 million, distributed between up to 5 partners. Of which at least £1.6 million is for onward granting to communities.
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We're looking for a partner to help increase the knowledge, skills and resilience of civil society organisations
- Area
- England
- Suitable for
- Community or voluntary organisations
- Funding size
- One grant for a lead partner, supporting around 8 to 10 partners. With £200,000 for the lead partner. And £1.9 million funding for civil society organisations participating in the partnership and development work.
- Total available
- £2.1 million
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People and Places: medium grants
We want to help communities in Wales with the issues that matter most to them. We're funding projects that involve the community. And will build on their skills and experiences. This funding can pay for capital costs or help you plan land or building work.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Voluntary organisations, community organisations or public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £20,001 to £100,000, for up to five years
- Total available
- £20 million for 2024 - 2025
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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People and Places: large grants
We want to help communities in Wales with the issues that matter most to them. We're funding projects that involve the community. And will build on their skills and experiences.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Voluntary organisations, community organisations or public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £100,001 to £500,000, for up to five years
- Total available
- £20 million for 2024 - 2025
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Helping young people aged eight to 24 to become more confident and play an active part in realising their potential.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £20,001 to £100,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Supporting urban and rural communities to become more resilient and sustainable through the ownership and management of land and land assets.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations
- Funding size
- £5000 to £1000000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Supporting Great Ideas awards grants to support innovative and strategically important project ideas that encourage positive social change in Wales.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Voluntary/community organisations and statutory bodies
- Funding size
- £20,001 and over
- Total available
- Up to £2 million in the current financial year
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Strengthening Communities is our funding for community led projects in Northern Ireland
- Area
- Northern Ireland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations
- Funding size
- £20,001 to £500,000 for up to 5 years. Only smaller organisations can apply for less than £200,000.
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Sustainable Community Buildings
This funding is to help organisations be more environmentally sustainable. It's capital funding (up to £50,000) to improve the energy efficiency of community buildings.
- Area
- Northern Ireland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations (with an annual income of less than £500,000)
- Funding size
- Up to £50,000 (capital funding only)
- Application deadline
Check the deadline for your council area
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Sustainable Steps Wales - Egin Grants
We want to help community groups in Wales who are starting to take action on climate change and want to live in a more sustainable way. Our grants will help groups who are receiving support from Sustainable Steps Wales - Egin Mentoring Service to kick start their ideas.
- Area
- Wales
- Suitable for
- Groups which have received mentoring from Egin (the Sustainable Steps Wales - mentoring service) and have completed an action plan.
- Funding size
- £100 to £15000
- Total available
- £3.75 million over 5 years
- Application deadline
You can apply when you’re ready. Funding is normally up to £15,000.
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Climate Action Fund - Our Shared Future
With this funding we want to involve more people in climate action. And we want to inspire bold and exciting change.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Suitable for
- Formal partnerships, working across sectors. Led by community and voluntary organisations or public sector organisations.
- Funding size
- The minimum you can ask for is £500,000. We expect to fund most projects for between £1 million and £1.5 million over 3 to 5 years. We may fund a small number of larger or longer projects. Contact us if you would like to discuss this. We aim to fund around 25 projects.
- Total available
- £30 million
- Application deadline
You’ll be able to apply until Spring 2025. We will announce the final deadline nearer the time.
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Larger amounts of funding for to expand on existing work. We’ll fund projects that help bring diverse communities together. We’ll also fund projects that help children and young people use their voice to influence change.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, statutory organisations
- Funding size
- £500,000 to £5 million. Funding is available for 2 to 10 years. We expect to fund around 20 projects a year.
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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The UK Portfolio explores new and innovative approaches, and develops and tests new ways of building a stronger civil society.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Funding size
- Over £500,000
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Supporting the psychological wellbeing and successful and sustainable transition of veterans and their families into civilian life.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Other National Lottery Funders
If none of the current The National Lottery Community Fund programmes are suitable for your project, one of the other Lottery funders may be able to help.
- Area
- UK-wide
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, Public sector organisations, Private sector organisations
- Application deadline
Check the other funder's websites
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Funding for communities in Scotland. We're looking for projects that will help people connect more with each other. We'll support projects that are open, inclusive and led by their community.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations that are led by a community.
- Funding size
- £20,001 to £250,000. For up to 5 years.
- Application deadline
Ongoing
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Funding for projects that support children, young people and families. Or that help people to be healthier and have better access to support.
- Area
- Scotland
- Suitable for
- Voluntary or community organisations, public sector organisations.
- Funding size
- £20,001 to £500,000. For up to 5 years.
- Application deadline
Ongoing
